The Corralitas Red Car Property was a private right-of-way through Silver Lake (Los Angeles) for the Pacific Electric interurban streetcar. The “Big Red Cars” ran until 1955 when the Glendale Line was decommissioned for freeway construction. For almost 40 years, a series of developers tried and failed to develop the Corralitas Red Car Property. It's not a park, it just looks like one.

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Photo: Diane Edwardson, June 14, 2013. Red Tailed Hawk in nest. The youngsters have been flying, but keep returning to the nest. (Enlarging photo won't make it better.)At last week's 2 Freeway Terminus Meeting, Benkin Jong, Metro Project Manager, admitted to watching a video of the hawk nest at the corner of Allesandro Street & Rosebud Ave. He said CalTrans will not work within 500' of nesting raptors. (Nesting season is typically Feb1 through Sept 1.) We've documented this nest regularly for a few years. However, we'd seen hawks flying in and out of that part of the tree for many previous years. This year's photos have not been as good as years' past. But we did see them raise 2 chicks to fledge this year.

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Community Residents’ Association for Parks is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization formed in 1997 by our Silver Lake neighborhood. We are dedicated to acquisition and preservation of the Corralitas Red Car Property as a park in partnership with the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy.
Contact: redcarproperty@gmail.com

Community Residents’ Association for Parks is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization formed in 1997 by our Silver Lake neighborhood. We are dedicated to acquisition and preservation of the Corralitas Red Car Property as a park in partnership with the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy.